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Presenters Justin Sun Senior Global Compensation Manager at Expedia Group Justin Sun is a global compensation advisor at Expedia Group where he designs and implements rewards programs, including the company’s approach to pay transparency.

Unintended Consequences There’s a certain irony that can play out when the minimum wage is increased, said Justin Sun, a global compensation adviser at Expedia.

Additionally, it went on to favorably cite comments that “recommended permitting issuers various means of recovery, such as through canceling unrelated unvested compensation awards, offsets against nonqualified deferred compensation and unpaid incentive compensation, future compensation obligations, or dividends on company stock owed to an executive officer...

The regulations are intended to help executives, whose compensation is often tied up in company shares, generate income while eschewing insider trading accusations.

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Save Reuse Permission A proper incentive compensation (IC) strategy is key to driving sales rep-physician engagement and motivating the salesforce to achieve performance goals.

Save Reuse Permission Editor’s Note: Workspan Daily will be reproducing a monthly Compensation Café blog post for the benefit of our readers and to encourage further discourse on topics vital to compensation professionals.

Refocusing M&A Retention Strategies To comply with noncompete rules and minimize risks of losing key employees, attorneys at Hunton Andrews Kurth recommend that employers take steps now to: ;Evaluate existing employee agreements and ensure they're tailored as appropriate to protect legitimate business interests, with new means of incentivizing performance and promoting retention.; ;Consider providing incentives through strategies like compensative-tied employment over a given time frame, equity rollovers or equity grants and consulting agreements with restrictive covenants (other than noncompetes).; The bottom line is that reliance on employment agreements such as noncompetes, which emphasize the “stick” approach to retaining employees, may shift to retention agreements that instead rely on “carrots” designed to influence the employee’s continued employment through compensation and other enticements.

Proposed Threshold as Expected Natalie Bare, a class action and employment law litigator for the Duane Morris law firm, said the DOL’s proposed overtime rule isn’t surprising, noting that it includes exactly what the DOL has long said it would include: an increase to the standard minimum salary level, an increase to the “highly compensated” employee total annual compensation threshold and an automatic process for future increases.